BAT helps farmers
British American Tobacco (BAT) distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) among 200 farmers for free at its district office at Sarpukur village of Aditmari upazila yesterday. Wearing PPE, farmers can keep themselves safe from the bad impact of insecticides at the time of using those in their field. BAT, Rangpur regional officer Belayet Ahsan said, poor farmers in the district cannot purchase personal protective equipment from the market. So the British America Tobacco has arranged the PPE free of cost for them. Now the farmers can pratect themselves fully from the harmful effects of insecticide, he added.
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